Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dole, Bush's strongest adversary, teetered on the brink of withdrawal even as he fought for revival in this week's Illinois primary. Dole cut half his campaign staff and canceled television ads in Illinois while scrambling to broadcast a half-hour final appeal on Saturday night. A frequent adviser who ranks as politics' reigning expert on defeat and redemption, Richard Nixon, wired encouragement: MAKE ILLINOIS YOUR FINEST HOUR...
Lawyers for the students could not be immediately reached for comment. The students have until March 30 to appeal the disciplinary actions to university administrators, Hopkins said...
...first-run releases deemed to be collectible. These include pop entertainments like Raiders of the Lost Ark, cult faves like Star Trek IV and children's classics like Lady and the Tramp (the biggest-selling movie yet released on video). Industry observers believe E.T., with its enduring family appeal, will wind up in the low-priced camp...
...elections approached, Botha went out of his way to appeal to right-wing voters. Last month he banned 17 antiapartheid groups, including the United Democratic Front, an antigovernment umbrella group with some 2 million members. Just two days before the election, Cape Town police arrested Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, two dozen other churchmen and more than 100 parishioners as they marched from St. George's Cathedral to Parliament to protest the ban. Yet when the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, an extreme-right group that advocates an all-white South Africa, marched in Pretoria two weeks ago clad in brown shirts...
...site, the U.S. General Services Administration, which had commissioned the $175,000 piece, recommended its removal. That galvanized the art world and provoked Serra to fight in federal court against any attempt to move it. He lost the first round, but, undaunted, he was there again last week to appeal. "The Government has to learn that art is not property," he says. "You can't move it like paper clips...